Chandigarh, December 14: The Punjab Government agencies and private millers have procured total 17915050.75 tonnes of Paddy in Punjab till today evening which included 5624.7495 tonnes procured on 14th December.
Disclosing this here today, an official Spokesman of Punjab Government said that out of total procurement of 17915050.75 tonnes of paddy in all the procurement centers of Punjab, the Government agencies procured 17642478.75 tonnes of paddy (98.5%) till date whereas 272572 tonnes (1.5%) of paddy has been procured by millers.
He said that PUNGRAIN had procured 6001480.87C tonnes (33.5%), MARKFED procured 3894342.477 tonnes (21.7%), PUNSUP procured 3841657.378 tonnes (21.4%), PSWC procured 1751942.988 tonnes (9.8%) and PAFC was able to procure 1772704.603 tonnes (9.9%) of paddy. The Central Government agency FCI had been able to procure 380350.4325 tonnes (2.1%).